Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I thought he had seen the enemy aircraft and , as he winged over into a steep dive I followed him without question . |
2 | Oh Mum I told you about that . |
3 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
4 | It is Sir Thomas Throgmorton , after the Grand Dickensian Banquet I told you about . ’ |
5 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
6 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
7 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
8 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
9 | ‘ That afternoon I asked him about it . |
10 | This afternoon I confronted him with my suspicions , and he admitted everything . |
11 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
12 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
13 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
14 | This is the strange storm I warned you of … |
15 | With deliberate irony I took him to Lock 's in St James 's Street , the most aristocratic hat-maker in London . |
16 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
17 | oh Then erm said I love my granddad I said what about your grandma ? |
18 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
19 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
20 | As a music lover I found myself in search of the ultimate sound — and I do n't mean loud boomy bass . |
21 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
22 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
23 | Even in disguise I knew her at once , for a truly sensual woman can not disguise herself from my perceptions once I have seen her . ’ |
24 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
25 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
26 | There was a little article in the Sun I told you about . |
27 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
28 | Lady I got her from she 's just getting the webs in between her feet and I thought then |
29 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
30 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |